Honestly they’ve taken a few steps in the right direction, and a few in the wrong directions with these classes. Currently as it is, I’d say there’s a huge glaring problem within the classes. The biggest is inquisitioner. It is totally useless while the sorcerer is alive, and waay too strong in cult games, AFTER he’s already won.
First off pointing out the old problem, and where I think the direction of the fix went totally wrong.
In the past, when sorc was first added, he was on his own the least capable NK… then had the added challange of being both weak to anything that could harm either existing NK, plus his own added challange of the neutral that was after him.
The attempted “fix” for this, was to massively buff his skill to fool the neutral that was after him. Magic dust went from framing 1 target, to framing the whole court.
– why this sucked
In short. it makes inquisitor 100% useless for trying to find the sorcerer. I mean assuming an average lifespan of 9 nights for these classes, 3 total court frames, means a 33.33_% chance of false positives, and that’s before adding in things like psychics, CW’s pali’s etc… You’d be an idiot to do anything based on a positive magic user check. Fortunately the BD is more than capable of taking out the sorcerer, so in regards to BD vs sorc it’s a positive change, in terms of justifying the existance of the inqusitioner, it’s awful. The inquisitor as he is now… is waay too good after he has no motivation to be good (especially in cult games), and flat out useless, when he actually has a goal to do… which is pretty much backwards. He’s only useful when he has no incentive to be useful.
If you ask me some modifications.
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revert magic frame back to 1 target. or remove it. The inquisitors ONLY true purpose is to hunt the sorcerer. Making him the worse choice to use to try to hunt the sorcerer, is just backwards.
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Give sorcerer better cover from BD investigatives. Probably make him show as BD to king (assuming you can’t take that ability away from king to begin with, or make the “allies” ability more like a sheriff/pali check, IE it finds unseen/cult but does not reveal neutrals, which I still am strongly in favor of).
I do strongly approve of the “sorc avoids knights” recent change, as well as the not killing unseen/cult. But I would say on the whole, sorc is too easy to find for BD to justify a whole class to hunt it, and I’d say completely making the class that hunts it incapable of hunting it, as a pretty unwise decision.
and lastly, I would say inquisitor seriously needs to not have such a strong impact on the game AFTER the sorcerer dies. He either becomes a cult hunting mega BD ally, sits on his butt and does nothing, or becomes a pain in the butt BD sabatoger killing all psychic/cw claims, as he no longer has anything to worry about no matter what the outcome. Normally finding out someone’s class is supposed to at least give you some input of a motivation they work towards. IE an alch, cares about staying alive. Won but still hanging around classes though, aren’t really fun for anyone in the game other than that person. They are wildcards that really only can be predicted with out of game information (IE the personality of the player), as they no longer have an in game goal to guide their actions. I really don’t think he should still have abilities after he doesn’t have a win condition anymore.
Just my opinion here, but I must say I like the sorc/inq concept in theory, but in practice right now, I fricking hate every game with them in it. Sorc is still the least capable NK IMO, and the inquisitioner is just a royal pain in the butt after the BD wins the game for him.
